How to Add a Coming Soon Page on Squarespace 2026, Enable Maintenance / Under Construction Page

In the Squarespace dashboard, open Pages and scroll down to the Not Linked section — this is where pages live that exist on your site but aren't connected to any navigation menu, which is exactly what you want for a page that isn't ready for regular visitors yet. Click the plus button and add a Blank Page, then give it a clear name like "Coming Soon" so it's easy to find again later, especially once you have several unlinked pages alongside your real ones.

Open the new page in the editor and build out a simple message — a bold heading is usually enough, something like "Coming Soon" or "Launching Soon," styled using the same section and heading tools you'd use on any other page. Click into a text block to edit it directly; Squarespace's inline editor lets you change the heading level and formatting right there, and it's worth keeping the message short since this page is meant to be glanced at, not read in depth.

Hover over the page in your list and click its settings icon to open Page Settings, which groups General, Navigation, SEO, Social Image, and Advanced into separate tabs. The General tab is where you'll find the option to set this page as your homepage — a toggle that, once enabled, makes this the first thing any visitor sees regardless of what URL they land on. The SEO tab is also worth a glance here, since it controls how the page's title and description appear if it gets shared or indexed while still in a coming-soon state.

Back in General, enable Set as Homepage and save — Squarespace immediately starts serving this page to every visitor, while the rest of your site remains reachable only through the Not Linked section or direct URLs you haven't shared yet. Preview the live site afterward to confirm visitors land on the coming-soon message rather than your old homepage, since the change should take effect the moment you save.

If you'd rather hide everything, not just swap the homepage, go to Settings, then Site Availability, and choose Password Protected instead. Enter a password and a short message like "Site Coming Soon" for visitors to see before they can get past the lock screen — this approach is closer to true maintenance mode, since nothing on the site is reachable without the password, including pages you might have left linked.

The two methods aren't mutually exclusive — you can build the cover page with an email capture form for early visitors and still enable password protection behind it, so anyone without the password sees your coming-soon message rather than a generic lock screen. This is a common setup for a real launch: it keeps the site fully hidden while still collecting interested visitors' emails ahead of time.